Tea and elderly health

summary

As tea has refreshing, promoting digestion, beneficial to health, so our people like to drink tea. Three or five people gathered together. After a few cups of tea, the chatterbox opened. Up and down for thousands of years, thousands of miles of romantic affairs were squeezed out by tea. Sometimes it makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you sad, sometimes it makes you nervous, sometimes it makes your heart flat. When guests come, they are first treated with tea. Tea is closely related to people's life. However, if you drink too much tea, it will hurt your body. For the elderly, it is particularly important to pay attention to the concentration of tea to protect their health. Let's take a look at the following.

Tea and elderly health

First, hinder the absorption of iron. Tea contains tannin, black tea contains about 5%, green tea contains about 10%. When the human body drinks a lot of strong tea, the combination of tannic acid and iron will be more active, which will bring obstacles and influence to the absorption of iron, and make the human body show iron deficiency anemia.

Second: easy to produce constipation. Tannic acid in tea can not only combine with iron, but also combine with protein in food to form a kind of massive tannic acid protein which is not easy to digest and absorb, leading to constipation. For the elderly with constipation, it will make constipation more serious.

Third: causes the blood pressure to rise and the heart failure. Caffeine in strong tea can accelerate the heart beat of human body and increase the blood pressure; at the same time, a large amount of strong tea liquid enters the blood vessels, which can increase the burden on the heart, produce chest tightness, palpitations and other discomfort symptoms, and aggravate the degree of heart failure.

matters needing attention

Everything has its limits. Drinking light tea can keep one's health, while drinking strong tea is harmful to one's health. In order to prolong one's life and spend one's old age safely, we should abandon "strong" and choose "light" when we want to drink tea for the elderly.